Hello! fellow person who shares the moon view with me.
Our size and measure were like a drop of water in the ocean when looking above us.We love to see the amazing glitters that stay and shine ever. And the thing about that beauty is we cannot convince ourselves to get away from that gorgeous view once we lift our head.
Nice and wonderful, you know that, and you can ask me, "oh I already know what you're talking about, don't waste my time"
Here is the catch, I'd not get to you until I have a disturbing fact.
Let's start, shall we
As always start with a question,
there is different giant telescopes around our world also known as observers.
What are these have in common?
Dark sky? Rounded head? Any other?
Guess it. I have the answer below, we will see if you guess it right.
Meanwhile, can I ask not as a question but as a request
Can you picture any of your early memories that you saw the stars above your head and tried to touch them with your small soft hands and were mesmerized by its beauty?
If you can, just compare those to today's recent night sky view!
Anything noticeable? I found out personally, my childhood memories of looking at skies have a lot of stars and now many were gone.
Do you feel the same? If yes, where are the stars? They died or exploded? All of them?
All-stars have a life span of millions of billion years. Then why can't we see those?
We will find that in this quest, okay?
Now, If you guess, All of the telescopes placed on the mountains, it's correct.
Why would they? Just placing within cities makes the discovery and communications better, right? But why?
There is a pretty good reason and also it has our answer for our lost stars.
Ever heard of Light pollution? Yes, that's a thing. Pollution of light does not physically affect directly to us. But it can block the view of anything far cannot see.
Wait, but we have telescopes in space as a satellite to take a picture of something far far away why would we have to see from earth? By logic it makes sense. Placing telescopes in orbit that is far from the surface seems like a good idea to see long distances.
Can I say the other logic as well? Comparing a billion kms with only 200kms seems not a big difference. So, do we need that?
The sole purpose of we has telescope satellite was to observe 24hrs a day. The sun blocks our views half a day and this light pollution also.
To visualize light pollution, the sun is a good example but it's not a part of pollution. We need the sun to live, don't blame it. And there are various DIY experiments to study light pollution.
Yearly rising usage of light and the need for security brought this threat.
We can see those all-stars via small telescopes and bigger ones. But not with our eyes anymore.
The urbanization of the population and an excess amount of light made it critical to place observatories in our sight.
That's why the observation telescopes place on mountains mainly not for their height, but to escape the excess lights of the city.
If you want to relive the memories of seeing stars with the naked eye, just go somewhere where there are a very minimal amount of lights. That could be anywhere riverside, forest, camping, mountain, or even power cut in the night.
And be a part to become using less energy and use only the light we need. So our children can see what we saw in our childhood.
If you have come this far, thank you, and appreciate you!
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